Garment.



WITNESS M. KUSTERKO.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION F ILED NOV. 2. 1915.

Patented May 22,1917.

A TTOR/VEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' MADELEINE KUSTERKO, 0F YOFN' KERS, NEW YORK.

GARMENT.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LMnnnnnmn KUsTERKo, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and'a resident of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented cer tain new andusefu'l Improvements in Garmerits, of whichthe following is a specification; r 1

invention relates to an improvement.

in garments, andparticularly .to cloaks or coats intended to beflworn on-th'e'outside of the person;and has for its primary ob .ject toprovide a coat or cloak which is designed especially forinfants' andother per sons unable to dress themselves, and which can be put on without forcing the. sleeves of the garment lengthwise'over the arms of the wearer; while at the same time having the appearance of aconventional .coat or cloak after the wearer dons the same and disposes the various parts into their proper positions.

The above and otherobjects and advantent which is'permitted by the general meaning of the terms in which the claim is ex pressed. On the drawing Figure 1 is a front vlew showing the manner in which my approved coat is made; and

Fig. 2 is a view of my improved garmentas the same appears when laid outopen on a substantially fiat surface. 7

In the particular description of my invention Iutilize the numeral 1 to indicate thebody of my improved cloak or garment; the samebeing cut to encircle the wearers figure;and being divided in front as shown at 2 for this purpose. "Any suitable fastening device, such as buttons and button holes or hooks. and eyes, etc, may be employed along the1edges2 to jointheseedges to each other. Theedges 2 extend from the bottom ofthe garment to the opening 3 for the neck; and fromthe sides adjacent the neck extend outward sleeves .4.

These sleeves 4 are .;divided along their tops fromthe cufis ortheouter endsof the sleeves clear to the inner ends and further,

, Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Patented May .22, 1917, nppl ication filed November 2, 1915. Serial No. 59,177.

along the tops of the shoulders to the neck 2 opening 3. This mode of cutting the sleeves and shoulders along the top is indicated at 5, and-the upper parts of thesleeves and shoulders may have fastening devices, such asflbuttons and button holes orlho'oks and eyes, or any convenient means to enablethe divided" edges of the coat or cloak along ,the

'topsof the shoulders and sleeves tobiefsecured together.

It will now be apparent wherein the utile lty and simplicity of my invention resides.

In order to put on a cloak made as just described, the garment is unfastened in front most any position with a great degree of If the person is ease and convenience. standing up, the sleeves only have to be buttoned or fastened over the arm and shoulhighly desirableder and then the garment secured in front. On the other'hand if'the garment is to be put on while the wearer is lying down, as when the cloak is to be used to envelop the form ofa child or baby, the garment is laid out flat and the front portions of the sleeves are turned downward, as indicated at the left'of Fig. --1. The baby is then laid in the middle of the garment, which is folded over upon him; the sleeves can then be buttoned or fastened together along the tops of the arms or shoulders and the garment secured along the front edges 2 in the usual way;

The garment is intended especially for infants, and it obviates the necessity of handling abahys arms to the extent required by e an ordinary coat. An infants arms being tender, somecare must be exercised in putting on a coat of ordinary make, toavoid injury or annoyance; but with my coat, no such'drawbacks are encountered. The cloak herein disclosed can be put on with so little trouble that, if asleep, the child does not even have to be waked; and no rumpling of the sleeves of the babys dress is entailedby the operation.

V also employ in connection with my im- 7 proved garment a collar 6, which is made large enough to have the form of a cape and long enough to bring its front edges close together adjacent the edges of the body of the garment l. The cape can be secured, as by buttons, hooks, etc, at one or more points 8 in the back adjacent the edge of the opening 3, and the front pair of corners thereon can be provided with fastening strings or ribbons 7. When the garment is being put on, the front ends of the collar are turned upward to uncover the divided tops of the sleeves and shoulders. After the garment is put in place on the form of the wearer and the sleeves and shoulders but toned together, the front ends of the collar are turned into the position shown at the right of Fig. l and they may be secured together by tying the ribbons 7 into a bow or other ornamental effect. It will be understood that the collar completely hides the seams and fastening devices along the tops of the sleeves and shoulders because it is made wide enough to extend from the end almost out to the ends of the sleeves. One or two terminal buttons at the outer ends of the sleeves may, however, be left exposed for ornament. After the collar has been turned down it would be impossible to distinguish the garment from an ordinary garment made with undivided sleeves, and the terminal buttons thus will pass for the ordinary buttons which are commonly secured at the outer ends of coat sleeves in order to make the same resemble cuffs.

Fig. 2 illustrates my improved garment as it appears when it is laid out open upon a bed, table or the like in order to put the cloak upon the form of a child or baby; and it likewise shows clearly how the parts of the garment are preferably cut in order to enable them to be fastened together to make the finished article. I can cut the back of the garment in one piece as indicated by the numeral 9; and the front will preferably comprise two pieces 10 secured to the back piece 9 by means of seams 11. These seams extend along the sides of the garment and the lower edges of the sleeves. The back piece 9 will be approximately T-shaped and provided with lateral extensions at the top corners to form the backs of the sleeves. As for the front pieces 10, they will be arranged side by side and will each have approximately the form of an inverted L, the lateral projections of which will form the front of the arms, as will be readily perceived. The upper inner corners of the front pieces 10 will be cut away to provide short curved edges 12 which are provided to make the opening 3. When the garment is laid out flat to dispose the body of an infant therein the upper parts of the side pieces will make flaps 13 which project inward slightly beyond the seams 11, and beneath these flaps there will be triangular folds 1% extending outward to the divided edges '2. When the child or other person is laid upon the cloak 9 these flaps 13 must, of course, be lifted beneath the arms and then they can be turned up and smoothed out to cause the front and backs of the sleeves l to envelop the arms. If desired, the front parts of the sleeves may be turned down as in Fig. l and the front pieces 10 doubled over outward in order to open out the garment soas to make an approximately square fold of the front pieces of which the forward sides of the sleeves are constituted.

When the child or other person is laid down upon the garment the sleeves will, of course, be secured in proper position by means of the fastening devices 5 and the front of the garment will be buttoned or otherwise secured along the front of the edges 2. The forward corners of the collar 6 can then be turned down to cover the shoulders and tops of the sleeves in the manner above set forth.

The cloak or coat is therefore made of only three pieces; namely, the integral backpiece and the two front-pieces, permanently secured together; and the collar or cape, when put in place, completes the garment. By making the garment of the T-shaped back-piece and the L-shaped front-pieces, simplicity, cheapness in production, and adaptability to the purposes in view, without the loss of any advantages, are insured; and when these pieces are fastened together, thesleeve portions will be held so as to maintain the divided edges on top, in the most convenient positions for getting the garment on the childs arms and shoulders.

From the above it will be apparent that v my improved garment is exceedingly simple and can be put on with much less effort and in much shorter time than coats or cloaks made in the ordinary way. After the same has been donned and the parts properly disposed it cannot be distinguished from a garment made in the conventional manner.

Having described my invention what I believe to be new, and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A coat or cloak, including a body comprising a T-shaped back-piece having a lateral extension projecting from each side at one end, and providing the rear halves of a pair of sleeves, said back-piece having a recess with a curved edge in said end between said extensions, and a pair of inverted L shaped front-pieces permanently secured to the side edges of the back-piece, and having portions forming the forward halves of the sleeves, permanently secured to the adjacent edges of the extensions so that the halves of each sleeve will be connected along their 1,226,977 r v Y 3 lower edges, said L-shaped pieces having cut-away corners to combine with said recess to provide a neck opening, means for detachably securing thesaid portions to the opposite edges of said extensions, so that the secured to be capable of being turned up to 10 uncover the sleeves, or down to overlie the sleeves, said collar then extending breadth- Wise nearly to the outer ends of the sleeves.

Signed at New York, in the county, of New York andState of New York, this 25th 15 day of October, A. D. 1915. V

MADELEINE KUSTERKO copies ot this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 1:. c." 

